The nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization is warning it may move its 2009 convention from Kansas City because of a controversial city park board member.

The National Council of La Raza is already looking at other cities after the appointment of Frances Semler, an anti-illegal immigration activist, said Janet Murgua, La Raza's president.

City Councilmembers have also heard concerns from members of the NAACP, which is expected to hold its 2010 convention in Kansas City. The city hasn't heard directly from officials of the national organization.

The city government is simply too racist! Nevermind that the Minutemen painstakingly (and painfully) make it a point to show that the "Minuteman believes that just as ethnicity, race, religion and all such factors are incidental and do not affect our God-given, constitutional equality as American citizens, such factors are also irrelevant in the debate over illegal immigration. There is no tolerance among Minutemen for racism or bigotry - E Pluribus Unum - Out of Many, One." Nevermind that most Americans (54%) have a favorable opinion of the Minutemen, while relatively few (22%) disapprove. Nevermind that an overwhelming majority (66%) of Americans feel current immigration levels are too high, while a paucity (2%) believe they are too low.

Mayor Mark Funkhouser today took a slap at the parks department for decades of 'elitism and cultural divisiveness' in naming his appointments to the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners.'

The commissioners have often been chosen from among the city's wealthiest,' Funkhouser said, pointedly making his announcement in Troost Park in the city's poorest council district. 'In fact, the reason the parks board is separate from the city management structure at City Hall is because the city's elites wanted it to be free from the influence of regular folks. With the appointment of this board, I am signaling a change.'

Apparently, this not-so-subtle racism does not concern either group like Selmer's explicitly non-racialist racism does.

Returning to the NAACP's hesitancy, how the silence of Semler, appointed to be a Board of Parks and Recreation commissioner, will stack up against the words of Julian Bond cannot be something the group's national leadership is eager to find out about. Talk about the kettle calling the porcelain "black"!

I do not care that these two groups are more 'racist' than the Minutemen. Nor do I care that they are entertaining the idea of holding their annual conventions elsewhere. Well, actually, that's not entirely veracious. I'd love for them to go elsewhere. But I do want to point out the hypocrisy in attempting to extort a leftist mayor for alleged 'racism' that cannot be found and only insinuated when the groups behind the extortion are so blatantly involved in what they allege Semler should be censured for.

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I watch all the major Dem candidates and Sheep-in-sheep's-clothing Reid cower as the MoveOn.org ad goes uncondemned by all senior Dems save Nancy Pelosi. She deserves credit for standing up to graymail or blackmail or whatever.

The KC case looks similar. The careless thuggery of ultra-left big constituencies [besides these two are NEA & the big unions] is destroying any semblance of integrity among the members of a party I belonged to before it went far south in a handbasket.